Archade Design Studios

Archade Design Studios is an innovative, research-based architecture practice founded in Cape Town. The founding principle of creativity that responds, first of all, to the diligent interpretation of clients' specific needs, and the broader and more pertinent issues of identity, Ubuntu, responsibility towards the welfare of the communities we build in, the welfare of the nature, the recognition of the need to preserve, conserve and regenerate/rehabilitate what has been destroyed, is the driving force that makes our architecture to constantly move, adapt, aspire to be part of the everchanging defining parameters. As the circumstances of the work change, our interests expand. We explore the full richness and diversity of architectural practice, understanding it as a critical cultural act that engages our most fundamental desires and aspirations. We refuse singular definitions of architecture: as art, as technology, as social service, as environmental agent, as political statement. We embrace all these definitions, together, as part of the rich, complex and vital discipline that we believe architecture to be.